A German court ruled on Tuesday that a hostel situated on the grounds of the Nor...
A view of the City Hostel Berlin, on the grounds of the North Korean embassy, in the city center, as it has been ordered to be closed by the Berlin Administrative Court in Berlin, Germany January 28, 2020. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse
The embassy, a Cold War legacy of North Korea’s diplomatic relations with Communist East Germany, has continued to operate since German reunification in 1990, with one of its buildings turned into a low-cost hostel popular with backpackers. The United Nations explicitly banned such leasing arrangements by North Korean embassies worldwide as part of U.N. Security Council Resolution 2321, passed in November 2016 after Pyongyang’s fifth nuclear test.
Appealing against that decision, the unnamed operator argued that the city authorities did not have the competency to order the hostel be closed and said it stopped paying rent to the embassy in April 2017, the Berlin court said.
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